Mail-receiving box.



PATENTED APR. 30, 1907.

A. HAENTZE. MAIL RECEIVING BOX.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 24, 1907.

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ms mmms PETERS c ALBERT HAENTZE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

MAIL-RECEIVING BOX.

Specification of Letters Patent.

fatented April 3O, 1 907.

Application filed January 24,1907. Serial No. 353.793.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT HAEN'rzE, a citizen of the United States, residing in Chicago, Cook county, Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mail-Receiving Boxes; and invention relates more particularly to that class of mailboX adapted for receiving and holding newspapers which are distributed by carriers who are to ut them into such receptacles to keep them rom being blown away or becoming wet in rain or snow, where the owner may take them out at his leisure, and of which the following is a full and correct specification, reference being had to the hereto accompanying drawing, forming a part hereof, and in which Figure 1 shows my said new device in elevation, partly in section; Fig. 2 shows a plan view of the lower end of said device when looking into it at its open end, with its gate closed. Fig. 3 shows the gate 0 as seen from its hinge end.

Like reference throughout.

' To attain said desired ends I construct my said new newspaper mail-box in substantially the following manner, namely; I make a cylindrical box a, preferably, of galvanized iron. Said cylinder is closed water tight above but is open at its bottom end, and at said end is provided with from one to several circumferential corrugations b and a hinge (1 into which pass the two ends 6 of a wire which are provided with short spurs at their meeting ends, and which point inward or at right angles to said parts e, their purose being to prevent the parts 6 from drawmg out of the hinge. From said hinge said wire crosses in a horizontal plane in two members until the opposite side of the cylinder is reached, then each part rises vertically to said plane and projects outward in a curved form seen at g which fits onto the top side oi a corrugation b, one of said vertical parts beletters denote like parts ing on each side of the slot 0. From said parts g which constitute a catch the said wires approach forming short horizontal elements j lrom which, at the center of the slot 0 said parts turn and project outward through said slot and form a loop 7L which projects beyond the outside of said cylinder a sullicient distance to form a handle to operate said gate 6 which turns on the hinge (Z as shown in Fig. 1, and which, when closed, secures newspapers and holds them as stated and, at the same time, is a mechanism which is readily and easily 0 erated. Said corrugated cylinder and en( gate, together, have sutlicient elasticity to permit said catch 9 to spring onto a corrugation b by the application of convenient force to either open or close said gate. The outer ends of said hinge project laterally to form lugs 9 through which pass nails to secure the device to a suitable support and a lug k at the top 01 the hold erserves a like purpose to hold the upper end of the device.

hat I claim is:

,1. The combination with a cylinder provided at its lower endwith circumferential corrugations and a vertical slot and a hinge opposite said slot, oi a gate made of a single piece of wire with ends entering said hinge from its opposite ends and said gate, opposite said hinge, provided with substantially vertical projections g to catch and hold on said corrugations and a loop projecting through said slot.

2. The combination with a cylinder provided at its lower end with a vertical slot, a hinge, and means to form a yielding catch at said slot, of a single-piece wire gate entering said hinge from opposite ends, and a handle projecting therefrom through said slot.

ALBERT IIAENTZE.

Witnesses;

n. ZIMMERMAN, FRANK S. GRAHAM. 

